Architecture
Discover the best architecture books, including top picks on architecture design and essential reads .
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The Psychic Highway: How the Erie Canal Changed AmericaThe Erie Canal delivered people to important places for important reasons, like Susan Cady Stanton and Lucretia Mott to Seneca Falls for history's first women's convention, to Rochester to meet and support abolitionists Frederick Douglass and Harriet Tubman, to witness the Fox Sisters summon...
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Brutal Bloc Postcards: Soviet Era Postcards from the Eastern BlocBrutalist hotels, avant-garde monuments and futurist TV towers: rare and previously unpublished vintage postcards from the Eastern BlocBrutal concrete hotels, futurist TV towers, heroic statues of workers--this collection of Soviet-era postcards documents the uncompromising landscape of the Eastern Bloc through its buildings and monuments....
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The Psychology of Home StagingThis is an ideal reference book if you want to learn WHY home staging for sale works and HOW to put it into practice.We explore the concept of home staging, introduce the theories, and define 20 key psychologies that when applied really do work....
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The World Trade Center (Classics of American Architecture)Originally published in 1987 while the Twin Towers still stood - brash and controversial, a new symbol of the city and the country - this book offered the first serious consideration of the planning and design of the World Trade Center. It benefited from...
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En Passant Par La DemeureThe luxurious volume En Passant par la Demeure is a vivid photographic tour of the noted French interior designer Jean-Loup Daraux's country home. Located in the south of France, in the Camargue region, the house is a stunning showcase of French country interior design....
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Dressage in the French TraditionNuno Oliveira said of the author: " I have the honor to declare that Dom Diogo de Bragan a has been one of my best students and that I consider him as one of the rare riders I know who is capable of taking...
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With Light SteamIn 1996 Bryon MacWilliams left the relative stability of the United States for the chaos of post-Soviet Russia and stayed. Over the course of nearly twelve years he reported on academe and the sciences for the world's leading publications and sought out the best...
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Cabins of MinnesotaThe lake cabin. Early mornings on the sleeping porch, lunches on the dock, late-night cleanings in the fish house. But Minnesota's seasonal getaways aren't limited to its bountiful lakes: vacationers trek to hideaways in the woods, to ice shacks along the Mississippi River; even...
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Diner À La Maison: A Parisian's Guide to Cooking and Entertaining at HomeA charming approach to cooking, entertaining, and table-setting with all the chicness of Parisians at home. The Parisian dinner party is the ideal of entertaining chic: the style of the host, the quality of the food and wine, and the beauty of the setting....
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Personal Space: Trip HaenischPossessing a refined eye for detail and unwavering commitment to style, this book showcases the sophisticated yet effortlessly laid-back West Coast homes designed by the award-winning celebrity interior designer Trip Haenisch. Trip Haenisch has decorated homes for celebrities over the past three decades, and...
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The Art of Elegance: Classic InteriorsMarshall Watson's first book reveals how to make traditional interiors fresh. Known for his meticulously researched, European-inspired style, Marshall Watson creates interiors that are rich in texture, detail, and simple luxuries. In his first book, Watson shares his finest work, demonstrating that while each...
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Architecture in Translation: Germany, Turkey, & the Modern HouseIn Architecture in Translation, Esra Akcan offers a way to understand the global circulation of culture that extends the notion of translation beyond language to visual fields. She shows how members of the ruling Kemalist elite in Turkey further aligned themselves with Europe by...
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Nantucket DoorwaysOnce a major whaling center, Nantucket today draws thousands to its New England shores as one of America's leading summer resorts. The author gives guided tour of the homes of such noted families as the Macys, the Folgers and the Starbucks.Author: Edward A. Stackpole,...
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The Architecture of Madness: Insane Asylums in the United StatesElaborately conceived, grandly constructed insane asylums--ranging in appearance from classical temples to Gothic castles--were once a common sight looming on the outskirts of American towns and cities. Many of these buildings were razed long ago, and those that remain stand as grim reminders of...
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Border Spaces: Visualizing the U.S.-Mexico FronteraThe built environment along the U.S.-Mexico border has long been a hotbed of political and creative action. In this volume, the historically tense region and visually provocative margin--the southwestern United States and northern Mexico--take center stage. From the borderlands perspective, the symbolic importance and...
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Adobe and Rammed Earth Buildings: Design and ConstructionEarth is the oldest and most widely used building material in the world today. It's abundant, inexpensive, and energy-efficient. But if you're building with earth, simplicity of material needn't be an excuse for poor planning. Paul Graham McHenry, author of the best-selling Adobe -...
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Skyscraper Gothic: Medieval Style and Modernist BuildingsOf all building types, the skyscraper strikes observers as the most modern, in terms not only of height but also of boldness, scale, ingenuity, and daring. As a phenomenon born in late nineteenth-century America, it quickly became emblematic of New York, Chicago, and other...
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Oscar Niemeyer and Brazilian Free-Form ModernismAuthor: David Kendrick UnderwoodPublisher: George BrazillerPublished: 08/17/1994Pages: 127Binding Type: PaperbackWeight: 0.86lbsSize: 9.94h x 7.28w x 0.60dISBN: 9780807613368
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Virginia Plantation HomesDavid King Gleason provides a grand tour of Virginia's distinctive plantation homes. As the architectural historian Calder Loth states in his prefatory note, "Gleason's elegant photographs provide a seductive image of life in 'Old Virginia.' He presents one inviting house after another, complete with...
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Sri Lanka Style: Tropical Design & ArchitectureSri Lanka Style showcases 30 of the finest traditional and modern dwellings in Sri Lanka. Reflecting its location and status as a hub of Indian Ocean trade from time immemorial, the tropical island of Sri Lanka has always been open to the movements and...
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